This paper introduces a new and ubiquitous framework for establishing achievability results in network information theory (NIT) problems. The framework uses random binning arguments and is based on a duality between channel and source coding problems. Further, the framework uses pmf approximation arguments instead of counting and typicality. This allows for proving coordination and strong secrecy problems where certain statistical conditions on the distribution of random variables need to be satisfied. These statistical conditions include independence between messages and eavesdropper's observations in secrecy problems and closeness to a certain distribution (usually, i.i.d. distribution) in coordination problems. One important feature of the framework is to enable one to add an eavesdropper and obtain a result on the secrecy rates "for free."We make a case for generality of the framework by studying examples in the variety of settings containing channel coding, lossy source coding, joint source-channel coding, coordination, strong secrecy, feedback and relaying. In particular, by investigating the framework for the lossy source coding problem over broadcast channel, it is shown that the new framework provides a simple alternative scheme to hybrid coding scheme. Also, new results on secrecy rate region (under strong secrecy criterion) of wiretap broadcast channel and wiretap relay channel are derived. In a set of accompanied papers, we have shown the usefulness of the framework to establish achievability results for coordination problems including interactive channel simulation, coordination via relay and channel simulation via another channel.

In this letter, we propose a new molecular modulation scheme for nanonetworks. To evaluate the scheme we introduce a more realistic system model for molecule dissemination and propagation processes based on the Poisson distribution. We derive the probability of error of our proposed scheme as well as the previously introduced schemes, including concentration and molecular shift keying modulations by taking into account the error propagation effect of previously decoded symbols. Since in our scheme the decoding of the current symbol does not depend on the previously transmitted and decoded symbols, we do not encounter error propagation; and so as our numerical results indicate, the proposed scheme outperforms the previously introduced schemes. We then introduce a general molecular communication system and use information theoretic tools to derive fundamental limits on its probability of error.

In this paper, a diffusion-based molecular communication channel between two nano-machines is considered. The effect of the amount of memory on performance is characterized, and a simple memory-limited decoder is proposed; its performance is shown to be close to that of the best possible decoder (without any restrictions on the computational complexity or its functional form), using Genie-aided upper bounds. This effect is adapted to the case of Molecular Concentration Shift Keying; it is shown that a four-bits memory achieves nearly the same performance as infinite memory for all of the examples considered. A general class of threshold decoders is considered and shown to be suboptimal for a Poisson channel with memory, unless the SNR is higher than a value specified in the paper. During each symbol duration (symbol period), the probability that a released molecule hits the receiver, changes over the duration of the period; thus, we also consider a receiver that samples at a rate higher than the transmission rate (a multiread system). A multi-read system improves performance. The associated decision rule for this system is shown to be a weighted sum of the samples during each symbol interval. The performance of the system is analyzed using the saddle point approximation. The best performance gains are achieved for an oversampling factor of three for the examples considered.

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This paper presents a new and ubiquitous framework for establishing achievability results in network information theory (NIT) problems. The framework is used to prove various new results. To express the main tool, consider a set of discrete memoryless correlated sources (DMCS). Assume that each source (except one, Z n ) is randomly binned at a finite rate. We find sufficient conditions on these rates such that the bin indices are nearly mutually independent of each other and of Z n . This is used in conjunction with the Slepian-Wolf (S-W) result to set up the framework. We begin by illustrating this method via examples from channel coding and rate-distortion (or covering problems). Next, we use the framework to prove a new result on the lossy transmission of a source over a broadcast channel. We also prove a new lower bound to a three receiver wiretap broadcast channel under a strong secrecy criterion. We observe that we can directly prove the strong notion of secrecy without resorting to the common techniques, e.g., the leftover hash lemma. We have also used our technique to solve the problem of two-node interactive channel simulation and the problem of coordination via a relay.